Some Silicon Valley research clarified the question why two tier 1 carrier’s advertisement department and content delivery network department were clashing with their revenues (from ads) and costs (from transport and content management).
Cable is everything but boring. While Web2.0 and Telco2.0 gets all the attention right now, a quiet revolution is taking place in the cable industry. And I’m talking big bucks product, service, and technology innovations.
The new Strobe framework builds on the vision of the Open Screen Project, a broad industry initiative to deliver a consistent runtime environment across desktops, televisions, mobile phones, and consumer electronics. While this might be a game changer for over-the-top video, I wonder how DRM and existing IPTV platforms will react on this.
Deutsche Telekom’s International Carrier Sales & Solution (ICSS) division announced an partnership with Edgecast, a US CDN company. Telecom Ramblings’ Rob Powell wonders why they didn’t acquire Edgecast right away, and here come my 2 cents…
Why do you want a Porsche, a Marc Jacobs handbag, or a Bugaboo stroller? It’s not the price, I would guess. Even with no-name plastic wrap, flour, or electronics: It’s not just the price you’re looking at. So what’s wrong with the current “US deflation” debate, and with the broadband access price wars?
First generation IPTV service offerings and deployments had many different views on IPTV, just like in any technology and service offering hype cycle during the hype phase.
Awsome idea by Gary Vaynerchuk on a video postcast show, free to grab and execute by anyone: Open a pack of vintage (or not so vintage) baseball cards. Talk about the pack company as well as the containing cards.
There is no such thing as “Dumb Broadband Pipe”. The worst thing video service providers can do is petitioning a Network Neutrality.
Android will also pull video onto mobile platforms such as the iPhone SDK or Google’s Android, but first successful commercialization of services will more likely come from hardware vendors than from current Web2.0 applications.
The end of the “Silicon” in Silicon Valley has been obvious for a long time, even if the timing has not. Given housing costs, salaries, regulation, water and energy issues, manufacturing in the Bay Area has been heading for the exit for more than a decade.
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